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The field of text-to-audio generation has seen significant advancements, and yet the ability to finely control the acoustic characteristics of generated audio remains under-explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel yet simple approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Sonal Kumar , Prem Seetharaman , Justin Salamon , Dinesh Manocha , Oriol Nieto

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

Large diffusion models have been successful in text-to-audio (T2A) synthesis tasks, but they often suffer from common issues such as semantic misalignment and poor temporal consistency due to limited natural language understanding and data…

Deep generative models have recently achieved impressive performance in speech and music synthesis. However, compared to the generation of those domain-specific sounds, generating general sounds (such as siren, gunshots) has received less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xubo Liu , Turab Iqbal , Jinzheng Zhao , Qiushi Huang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

We present SALAD, a zero-shot TTS autoregressive model operating over continuous speech representations. SALAD utilizes a per-token diffusion process to refine and predict continuous representations for the next time step. We compare our…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Arnon Turetzky , Avihu Dekel , Nimrod Shabtay , Slava Shechtman , David Haws , Hagai Aronowitz , Ron Hoory , Yossi Adi

This work introduces Sample-Efficient Speech Diffusion (SESD), an algorithm for effective speech synthesis in modest data regimes through latent diffusion. It is based on a novel diffusion architecture, that we call U-Audio Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Justin Lovelace , Soham Ray , Kwangyoun Kim , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Felix Wu

In recent years, text-to-audio models have revolutionized the field of automatic audio generation. This paper investigates their application in generating synthetic datasets for training data-driven models. Specifically, this study analyzes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Francesca Ronchini , Luca Comanducci , Fabio Antonacci

Diffusion models have significantly improved the quality and diversity of audio generation but are hindered by slow inference speed. Rectified flow enhances inference speed by learning straight-line ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Junqi Zhao , Jinzheng Zhao , Haohe Liu , Yun Chen , Lu Han , Xubo Liu , Mark Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate complex structures from simpler elements. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Giovanni Bindi , Philippe Esling

Diffusion models have shown excellent performance in text-to-image generation. Nevertheless, existing methods often suffer from performance bottlenecks when handling complex prompts that involve multiple objects, characteristics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Mingcheng Li , Xiaolu Hou , Ziyang Liu , Dingkang Yang , Ziyun Qian , Jiawei Chen , Jinjie Wei , Yue Jiang , Qingyao Xu , Lihua Zhang

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based method that takes speaker embeddings extracted from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 KiHyun Nam , Jungwoo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Gangin Park , Chaeyoung Jung , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

Despite the impressive progress of multimodal generative models, video-to-audio generation still suffers from limited performance and limits the flexibility to prioritize sound synthesis for specific objects within the scene. Conversely,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yujin Jeong , Yunji Kim , Sanghyuk Chun , Jiyoung Lee

The diffusion model has demonstrated superior performance in synthesizing diverse and high-quality images for text-guided image translation. However, there remains room for improvement in both the formulation of text prompts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Qi Si , Bo Wang , Zhao Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capability in generating high-quality images, videos, and audio. Due to their adaptiveness in iterative refinement, they provide a strong potential for achieving better non-autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yuxuan Liu , Tianchi Yang , Shaohan Huang , Zihan Zhang , Haizhen Huang , Furu Wei , Weiwei Deng , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang

Existing audio-text retrieval (ATR) methods are essentially discriminative models that aim to maximize the conditional likelihood, represented as p(candidates|query). Nevertheless, this methodology fails to consider the intrinsic data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yifei Xin , Xuxin Cheng , Zhihong Zhu , Xusheng Yang , Yuexian Zou

In this paper, we introduce SoloAudio, a novel diffusion-based generative model for target sound extraction (TSE). Our approach trains latent diffusion models on audio, replacing the previous U-Net backbone with a skip-connected Transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Helin Wang , Jiarui Hai , Yen-Ju Lu , Karan Thakkar , Mounya Elhilali , Najim Dehak

The Video-to-Audio (V2A) model has recently gained attention for its practical application in generating audio directly from silent videos, particularly in video/film production. However, previous methods in V2A have limited generation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Simian Luo , Chuanhao Yan , Chenxu Hu , Hang Zhao

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

We present a dynamic model in which the weights are conditioned on an input sample x and are learned to match those that would be obtained by finetuning a base model on x and its label y. This mapping between an input sample and network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Shahar Lutati , Lior Wolf

We investigate multi-stage pretraining for prosody modeling in diffusion-based TTS. A speaker-conditioned dual-stream encoder is trained with masked language modeling followed by SigLIP-style cross-modal contrastive learning using…